# Ever know a family who named their kids via some cute theme or scheme? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661 "2026-07-14T16:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jebbilene](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jebbilene/32/3414_2.png) [@Jebbilene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebbilene)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/61 "2026-07-15T01:40:14Z")
I was at school with a girl called Suleesha. She had sisters Sichelle, Sasha, Shimber and Shanelle. Her brothers were Bob and Bri. Their names were like a poem to me. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/62 "2026-07-15T02:24:25Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Freakanomics. Many criminals with the middle name wayne or dewayne. That was it, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/63 "2026-07-15T02:47:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yes, it absolutely, positively, 100% is a theme. You don’t see it as one because, as I pointed out, our culture is submerged in it It’s not that, it’s just that so many names are in the Bible that it’s trivial to find a family where everyone has a biblical name. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Saul, Miriam, Abe, Isaac, Jacob, Leah, Naomi (?), Jesus, Mary, etc etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/64 "2026-07-15T02:52:51Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > It’s not that, it’s just that so many names are in the Bible that it’s trivial to find a family where everyone has a biblical name. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Saul, Miriam, Abe, Isaac, Jacob, Leah, Naomi (?), Jesus, Mary, etc etc etc. Yes? That only makes my point. We are immersed in Christian culture so deeply that we don’t think a pattern is a pattern. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/65 "2026-07-15T03:17:35Z")
I went to school with twin girls named Autumn and Eve. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/66 "2026-07-15T03:23:14Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > We are immersed in Christian culture so deeply that we don’t think a pattern is a pattern. David, Michael, Steven and Sarah are **not** a pattern. Those are basic, run of the mill names used by millions of people who are not Christian and are very common Jewish names. If the names were Jedediah, Ezekiel, Boaz and Mordecai, _then_ you’d have a theme. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/67 "2026-07-15T03:23:21Z")
When my dad was a kid he was in the same grade as a pastor’s daughter.The pastor had 3 kids: Faith, Hope (the girl in dad’s grade) and Charles. Dad always laughs about poor Charles. Ruined everything. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/68 "2026-07-15T03:27:28Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > David, Michael, Steven and Sarah are **not** a pattern. I strongly disagree. Would it change your perception at all to know that none of their close relatives had any of those names to name them after and they were Southern Baptists? Or will you cling to them just happening to choose 4 biblical names entirely by coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/69 "2026-07-15T03:42:57Z")
Patiently waiting until somebody posts claiming to know someone who knows a little girl named Le-a, pronounced ‘Ledasha’, because, “the hyphen don’t be silent…” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/70 "2026-07-15T03:45:26Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > When my dad was a kid he was in the same grade as a pastor’s daughter.The pastor had 3 kids: Faith, Hope (the girl in dad’s grade) and Charles. Dad always laughs about poor Charles. Ruined everything. Well, Charles might become “Charlity,” to go with Faith and Hope. We adopted a cat named Hope. She came from a litter of three kittens, whom the owner named Faith, Hope, and Charity. She was an indoor cat, never went outdoors, so no matter how bad things got, we never lost Hope. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/71 "2026-07-15T04:20:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Or will you cling to them just happening to choose 4 biblical names entirely by coincidence? Michael is _literally_ the most common name in the country and David is #4. And who is this “Ste **v** en” in the Bible? Yes, those names are Biblical in _origin_, but they are so commonplace and standard that it’s not a _theme_ to name kids that, which is what this thread is about. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/72 "2026-07-15T04:34:54Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Yes, those names are Biblical in _origin_, but they are so commonplace and standard that it’s not a _theme_ to name kids that, which is what this thread is about. For parents who choose those names _because_ of their Biblical significance, it certainly is a theme, to _them_. For other parents, sure, it’s just popular names. Both can be true. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/73 "2026-07-15T04:40:51Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > For parents who choose those names _because_ of their Biblical significance, it certainly is a theme, to _them_. Still, if parents are aiming for biblical significance, they’d do better to name their kids obvious biblical names, not the most common names in the US. ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/74 "2026-07-15T04:44:28Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > And who is this “Ste **v** en” in the Bible? Stephen, with a ‘ph’, turns up in Acts 6 and 7. “Steven” is a variant spelling, obviously. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > For parents who choose those names _because_ of their Biblical significance, it certainly is a theme, to _them_. If they chose the names for their biblical significance, wouldn’t you expect them to use the spelling that occurs in scripture? Obviously I don’t know the parents concerned, but the use of the “Steven” variant here would make me less likely, looking at this array of names, to think that the parents had a theme or scheme of using names from scripture. I’d think they just had a preference for well-established, popular, mainline names. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/75 "2026-07-15T04:51:00Z")
Moderating: let’s return to “groups of names with themes” and drop the argument about whether “biblical names” counts as a theme. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/76 "2026-07-15T07:46:17Z")
Or twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello, pronounced Or-AHN-juh-lo and Leh-MAHN-juh-lo. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/77 "2026-07-15T10:36:00Z")
My brother’s 4 kids are deliberately named in alphabetical order. Then one of his kids came out as non-binary and changed their name to one that did not fit the format. My brother didn’t care about the non-binary but was annoyed that his naming convention got messed up 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/78 "2026-07-15T11:27:05Z")
My name rhymes with my sister’s (one letter difference). To be exact, the commonly used diminutives of our names rhyme. This was intentional to be cutesy/trendy and I never liked it. I switched to using my formal first name when I moved out on my own, and it’s become the default now. The only people who use my nickname today are glad-handing sales-holes, and a few older members of my family. We have some neighbors who named their kids after the cities they vacationed in. Paris, Milan, London, etc. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/79 "2026-07-15T11:35:40Z")
My SIL is the third of 4 kids, and they were also named in alphabetical order. More, their names begin with A, B, C, D. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661/80 "2026-07-15T12:16:09Z")
I have a Welsh surname, and my first 2 names are spelled the Welsh way, which has meant a lifetime of correcting people. I wanted to keep the tradition going, but give my kids an out if they wanted it. So my 3 sons all have a very Welsh 2nd middle name. 2 of them don’t even include any English vowels. As it’s their 2nd middle name they can drop it if they hate it. The youngest one is now 19 and all 3 of them still use their full names whenever possible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-know-a-family-who-named-their-kids-via-some-cute-theme-or-scheme/1031661.md?page=5)